Akif Shinaishin Quotes & Sayings

My all-time favourite political promise - more a boast than a promise, really - came from former Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau, who said in the lead-up to the 1976 Olympics, 'The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.' — Martin O'Malley

Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths — Ben Oliveira

I hear a voice you cannot hear, which says I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see, which beckons me away. — Thomas Tickell

The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[ ... ] I finally understood that death and numbers don't cohere. Everyone is 'one.' An accident report might say that nine died, four of them in their teens, but each death was 'one.' Each of six million Jews was 'one.' With death it is a series of 'ones. — Jim Harrison

Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong. — Sophocles

A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies — Edmund Randolph

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself. — Storm Jameson

This is a sad, sweet story that has inspired many versions in films through the years (including Kunal Kohli's Mujhse Dosti Karoge!). — Anupama Chopra

Usually when you practice zazen, you become very idealistic, and you set up an ideal or goal which you strive to attain and fulfill. But as I have often said, this is absurd. When you are idealistic, you have some gaining idea within yourself; by the time you attain your ideal or goal, your gaining idea will create another ideal. — Shunryu Suzuki